3. Risk management
Support on calculating conviction spent dates
Get guidance for both applicants and hiring managers on determining spent dates for convictions, preventing over-disclosure and ensuring appropriate consideration of convictions in the hiring process.
What does success look like?
Accurate calculation of conviction spent dates
Prevention of over-disclosure by candidates
Compliance with data storage and destruction requirements.
How would Offploy do it?
Get some advice on how to work out when a conviction becomes spent in law. This is not always easy to do, particularly if an applicant has multiple convictions. Organisations such as Offploy and Unlock provide specialist training in this area.
Use an online calculator which enables you to input offence data and gives the legal "spent" date.
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Examples in Practice
You can use an online disclosure calculator (England & Wales only):
Disclosure Calculator - Unlock
Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record: Check if your conviction or caution is spent - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record: Check if your conviction or caution is spent - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Case Study
Training was delivered to Waythrough staff at several sites to understand the basics of what needs to considered when calculating when an offence becomes spent in England & Wales. Similar training has been delivered to Catch22 and is included in pre-recorded videos for Transport for Wales — Catch22
Get a helping hand on working out spent dates on a free 30 minute call with Offploy
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